The Big Shill
Even a cursory inspection of my physique, such as it is, should lead the observer to be willing to take my word for it when I say a restaurant has good food.
For purposes of this post, let me give you my definition of a meat and three restaurant. At a meat and three restaurant, the parking lot will have some number of trucks that actually go to real work sites regularly. In those trucks will be a truck box and in that truck box there will be real tools. The real tools will be used by men who know how to use them.
In a meat and three, there are no sandwiches cut into fourths. There is no fruit tea. One is not likely to find a table of nice ladies in purple dresses and red hats. Any kind of _______ salad on the menu is most likely potato salad, and it won't come on a bed of lettuce with grapes next to it.
In a meat and three, the green beans will be dark green (as in cooked, not bright green and stiff) and there will be pork of some kind in with the green beans. Most often, one could expect to find corn bread on the menu. If you cannot get mac and cheese, it is because they ran out, not because they didn't make any.
If you like a meat and three as I have defined it, you must try COOL CAFE at 1110 Hillsboro Road, Suite B200 (at the corner of Hillsboro Road and Mack Hatcher Bypass behind the Mapco and the bank). I've been there three times in the last week. Trust me, this is real and really good food.
I wouldn't normally be such a shameless shill in a forum such as this, but the place is new, the owners (Tim Ness and Susie Hughes) seem like good people and, in case you missed the point, the food is great.
On any given day, they have two or three meat choices and about eight vegetable choices. A meat with two vegetables and a glass of water comes to $7.50. The portions are very generous. The menu changes day to day, but you can call to find out what is on the menu (599-0338). They do sit down lunch in a clean environment 10:30 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. weekdays and they do takeway service until 7:00 p.m. weekdays and Saturdays 2:00 - 6:00. Every day I've been there, the customer mix has ranged from suits like myself to the guys in the real trucks to groups of women, sans red hats.
If you think you like a meat and three but you don't like Cool Cafe, let's you and me never have lunch together.
For purposes of this post, let me give you my definition of a meat and three restaurant. At a meat and three restaurant, the parking lot will have some number of trucks that actually go to real work sites regularly. In those trucks will be a truck box and in that truck box there will be real tools. The real tools will be used by men who know how to use them.
In a meat and three, there are no sandwiches cut into fourths. There is no fruit tea. One is not likely to find a table of nice ladies in purple dresses and red hats. Any kind of _______ salad on the menu is most likely potato salad, and it won't come on a bed of lettuce with grapes next to it.
In a meat and three, the green beans will be dark green (as in cooked, not bright green and stiff) and there will be pork of some kind in with the green beans. Most often, one could expect to find corn bread on the menu. If you cannot get mac and cheese, it is because they ran out, not because they didn't make any.
If you like a meat and three as I have defined it, you must try COOL CAFE at 1110 Hillsboro Road, Suite B200 (at the corner of Hillsboro Road and Mack Hatcher Bypass behind the Mapco and the bank). I've been there three times in the last week. Trust me, this is real and really good food.
I wouldn't normally be such a shameless shill in a forum such as this, but the place is new, the owners (Tim Ness and Susie Hughes) seem like good people and, in case you missed the point, the food is great.
On any given day, they have two or three meat choices and about eight vegetable choices. A meat with two vegetables and a glass of water comes to $7.50. The portions are very generous. The menu changes day to day, but you can call to find out what is on the menu (599-0338). They do sit down lunch in a clean environment 10:30 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. weekdays and they do takeway service until 7:00 p.m. weekdays and Saturdays 2:00 - 6:00. Every day I've been there, the customer mix has ranged from suits like myself to the guys in the real trucks to groups of women, sans red hats.
If you think you like a meat and three but you don't like Cool Cafe, let's you and me never have lunch together.
posted by Alderman Dana McLendon at 10:33 AM
1 Comments:
I'll give it try. It will have to be pretty good to break me away from Chef Tim's Cracked Pepper on Columbia Avenue.
I just hope the Chef Tim's isn't found to be built on top of a battlefield and torn down....
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